Mark Twain
By: Cameron Lockwood
synopsis
FAMOUS AS
Author and Humorist
RELIGION
Atheist
BORN ON
30 November 1835
BORN IN
Florida
DIED ON
21 April 1910
PLACE OF DEATH
Redding
FATHER
John Marshall Clemens
MOTHER
Jane Lampton
SPOUSE:
Olivia Langdon
CHILDREN
Langdon, Jean (b. 1880, d. 1909), Susy, Clara Clemens
WORKS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
AWARDS:
1967 - Emmy award
1966 - Tony award
what was he famous for?
Twain as a writer initiated with humorous and light verse but embarked on more serious and harsh subjects in his later career. His one of the important works in this category was Huckleberry Finn, which combined humor and social criticism. Aside from this, he wrote several travelogues and lectures. A Tramp Abroad(1880), his first travelogue and a satirical account of his travels to Germany, Italy and the Alps, was a sequel to his early work Innocent abroad and was next followed by The Prince and the Pauper in 1882. Mark wrote his first important work, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County In year 1865, which was first published in the New York Saturday Press and became a bestseller within a short span of time. Yet many of his work were suppressed, censored or banned in America for various reasons. In 1888, Mark Twain was awarded the Master of Art degree from Yale University.
- (1867) Advice for Little Girls (fiction)
- (1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)
- (1868) General Washington's Negro Body-Servant (fiction)
- (1868) My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (fiction)
- (1869) The Innocents Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1870-71) Memoranda (monthly column for The Galaxy magazine)
- (1871) Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (fiction)
- (1872) Roughing It (non-fiction)
- (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiction)
- (1875) Sketches New and Old (fictional stories)
- (1876) Old Times on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
- (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)
- (1877) A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (stories)
- (1878) Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches (fictional stories)
- (1880) A Tramp Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1880) 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (fiction)
- (1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiction)
- (1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
- (1884) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)
- (1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiction)
- (1892) The American Claimant (fiction)
- (1892) Merry Tales (fictional stories)
- (1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (fictional stories)
- (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)
- (1894) Pudd'n'head Wilson (fiction)
- (1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective (fiction)
- (1896) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (fiction)
- (1897) How to Tell a Story and other Essays (non-fictional essays)
- (1897) Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)
- (1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)
- (1901) Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire)
- (1902) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (fiction)
- (1904) A Dog's Tale (fiction)
- (1905) King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire)
- (1905) The War Prayer (fiction)
- (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiction)
- (1906) What Is Man? (essay)
- (1907) Christian Science (non-fiction)
- (1907) A Horse's Tale (fiction)
- (1907) Is Shakespeare Dead? (non-fiction)
- (1909) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction)
- (1909) Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)
- (1910) Queen Victoria's Jubilee (non-fiction, published posthumously)
- (1924) Mark Twain's Autobiography (non-fiction, published posthumously)
- (1935) Mark Twain's Notebook (published posthumously)